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When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again. — Richard Russo
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.' — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each… — Allen West
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of… — Virginia Woolf
I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from… — Muhammad Yunus
Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation has been achieved?… — Nawal El Saadawi
The businessman who assumes that his life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that,… — E. M. Forster
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man… — Ayn Rand
When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she… — Theodore Dreiser
in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made… — Hannah Arendt
What is perceptible to one’s mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the ever-recurring sameness of… — Robert Musil
As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment. Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be… — Jane Roberts
Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now intellectually, atheists continue… — Greg L. Bahnsen
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language… — George Sand
If I'm not with a butch everyone just assumes I'm straight. It's like I'm passing too, against my will. I'm sick of the world thinking… — Leslie Feinberg
In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of… — Charles Baudelaire
She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a… — Gregory Maguire
Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your body and mind;… — R.J. Ellory
The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself — Orson Scott Card
Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about cookery and writes… — Mary Ann Shaffer
Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play. — Marisha Pessl
A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation [...] He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes… — Michel Foucault
Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create… — Christopher Hitchens

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